Watch this…
Radio Free Asia: “did you know in North Korea they eat babies?”
Me: “I don’t believe that.”
Radio Free Asia: “WHAT?!?!? How did you do that???”
See. And I’m just a dumbass who does nothing but smoke weed and watch pirated b-horror movies. Whats everyone else’s fucking excuse?
People fall for this shit because they want to, not because the state department has magical brainwashing powers. Propaganda doesn’t mean people don’t have fucking agency.
Agency just means that the mechanisms that determine behavior in response to stimulus occurs within us. It doesn’t mean we have control over it. People swimming in propaganda all their lives are going to behave using that propaganda they’ve epxerienced to judge other propaganda. You might as well pick a fish up out of water and say, “just breathe air, bro.”